A cationic rhodium-chiral diene complex as a high-performance catalyst for the intramolecular asymmetric [4+2] cycloaddition of alkyne-1,3-dienes.
A cationic rhodium-chiral diene complex as a high-performance catalyst for the intramolecular asymmetric [4+2] cycloaddition of alkyne-1,3-dienes.
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10.1002/anie.200702586
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2007-09
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R. Shintani;Y. Sannohe;T. Tsuji;Tamio Hayashi
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R. Shintani;Y. Sannohe;T. Tsuji;Tamio Hayashi
The successful development of a transition-metal-catalyzed asymmetric transformation requires the achievement of both high catalytic activity and high enantioselectivity. It is therefore desirable to properly evaluate the relationship between the catalyst activity and the nature of a ligand on the transition metal in a given catalytic reaction, and develop its asymmetric variant by employing a chiral ligand with the required properties for high activity. In this context, we demonstrate herein that a rhodium–diene complex is much more active than its rhodium–bisphosphine counterpart as a catalyst for intramolecular [4+ 2] cycloadditions of alkynetethered 1, 3-dienes, and that the use of a chiral diene ligand leads to the development of a highly active and enantioselective asymmetric variant of this reaction. Since the first report by Livinghouse in 1990,[1] many rhodium (I) complexes, along with complexes of several other transition metals,[2] have been shown to catalyze intramolecular [4+ 2] cycloaddition reactions of alkyne-tethered 1, 3-dienes. Cationic rhodium (I) complexes bearing a bisphosphine ligand such as 1, 2-bis (diphenylphosphanyl) ethane (dppe)[3] or 1, 4-bis (diphenylphosphanyl) butane (dppb)[4] have been utilized as highly efficient catalysts for these reactions, and some asymmetric variants using chiral bisphosphine ligands have also been developed.[5] Chung et al., on the other hand, described the use of [Rh (naphthalene)(cod)] BF4 (cod= 1, 5-cyclooctadiene) as an effective catalyst,[6] thereby demonstrating that a phosphine-free rhodium–diene complex can also show high activity for these cycloadditions.[7] On the basis of these precedents, we initially focused on the head-to-head comparison of several ligands to quantitatively evaluate their efficiency in the rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular [4+ 2] cycloaddition reaction with alkynetethered 1, 3-diene 1a as a model substrate [Eq.(1)]. These reactions were carried out in the presence of 2mol% of rhodium catalyst in dichloromethane at 258C in a reaction calorimeter (Omnical SuperCRC), and the data were analyzed by the reaction progress kinetic analysis method developed by Blackmond.[8] The reaction catalyzed by the Rh–cod complex proceeded very fast, with 97% conversion being achieved in only 10 min (Figure 1). In contrast, the use of rhodium–bisphosphine catalysts gave much slower reactions (3–4% conversion after 10 min), thereby establishing that the Rh–cod complex is at least 20 times more active than its Rh–dppe and Rh–dppb counterparts under these conditions (Figure 1).The results of these kinetic studies suggested that the use of a chiral diene ligand [9–12] would be desirable for the development of a highly efficient asymmetric variant of this process.[13] As shown in Equation (2), the reaction of 1a proceeded smoothly with (S, S)-Ph-bod*[10] as the ligand to